Helping my clients refine their strategy and increase their impact

I bring over 25 years experience working with a global client base to your organisation

Coach

I have provided over 500 hours of coaching services to business, public sector and not for profit leaders.

Mentor

I have mentored over 50 social justice activists. Many over an extended period of 3 to 5 years.

Facilitator

I have thousand’s of hours of group facilitation experience.

Trainer

I have trained hundreds of leaders around the world in coaching skills, organisational development, strategic planning, and self-care.

What my clients say

When asked to select just three attributes to best describe Sean’s professional service I have difficulty deciding which quality not to select. In the work Sean has done for African Road I have found him to be exemplary in all regards.
Sean has keen perception and a unique blend of creativity and the ability to consistently produce an outcome that exceeds expectations . A sharp understanding of the bottom line combined with his exceptional scope of knowledge, pertinent real life experience, heart and passion for his work and high personal integrity makes Sean a first pick for us.

What I like about Sean the most is how down to earth and approachable he is. As a coach he makes you feel really comfortable with the truth and enables an environment where the reality in any situation is named, openly and professionally. While every session is professionally conducted, there is not the feeling that you are on a time belt or that you are another client going through the motions. Sean has the knack of making the most complicated situation seem so normal. He is naturally gifted and professionally empathetic.

Sean is a great listener, professional yet friendly and always makes time for coaching sessions on request. He makes follow up’s, is committed to seeing me succeed and his coaching style is quite empowering.

Sean is skilled at dreaming big dreams, seeing possibilities where others see problems, bringing people together and making things happen, creating something out of nothing, and wrapping it in words and pictures so that it looks like its been part of the landscape all along.

Sean has the ability to absorb information quickly and extract the pertinent points. He is skilled at seeing the ‘big picture’ and can guide discussion towards clients finding their own solutions. He has helped me in this area on a number of occasions over the past 4 years.

Sean brings decades of experience in the field to his coaching clients. He and I have worked together in several countries and cultures. Sean listens well, using discernment in how and when he speaks. He believes in the power of each individual to bring unique resources to bear on an issue. I trust Sean to use his experiences as an appropriate lens while being objective in his coaching approach. He is an excellent value for the price you pay!

Stories from my work

In some parts of Africa Violence Against Women (VAW) is so pervasive that one would be tempted to call it normal – in South Africa where 1 in 4 men have raped, or in Liberia where 80% of women endured sexual assualt during the civil war, or in Somalia where the genitals of more than[…]

I was sitting in one of my favourite coffee shops this morning prepping for my class on Human Rights advocacy at St Norbert College (where I have been lecturing for the last few days). Reading the news over breakfast it struck me that today’s Guardian was filled with stories that illustrated my key points. Those stories ended up shaping my lecture as follows:[…]

Sitting on a plane on my way home from two weeks of coaching in East Africa. In my headphones Jack Johnson’s (All at once) lyric rings true: “All at once, The world can overwhelm me There’s almost nothin’ that you could tell me That could ease my mind Which way will you run When it’s[…]

We are the ones who left. Some ran away. Others walked away. Some were simply taken away. Others sent. But today, no matter where we are or how we came to be here – today, we are all South African. Today we have changed our Facebook covers and our profile pictures. Today we have posted[…]

A couple of weeks ago Joni Powers and I had the privilege of facilitating a workshop for 16 incredible leaders from across the world. They came from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Palestine, Papua, and Iraq. Each of them is driving change in their communities and countries. Their work covers a wide range of issues:[…]

I just spent a week being reminded of the incredible injustice of the global economy. The harsh reality that “where you live [does] decide, whether you live or whether you die.” (U2) For poor young women in Thailand the choice is clear and alarming. Back breaking labour all day in rice paddies to earn $1[…]

I have spent the last few days trying to distill the key principles I have learnt over the last 25 years into a workshop on Community Development. In the end I settled on 7 key principles: 1. Start local – so many initiatives want to start with a community on the other side of town[…]

It is always encouraging to see others using the models that you exposed them too in completely different contexts. The guys from Congo Peace Network were in a workshop I ran in Kigali, Rwanda about a year ago. And today I get a copy of their latest newsletter showing a training they have done in[…]

I’m sitting in a training workshop in rural Uganda. My friend David Musoke is training community leaders (some of whom are illiterate) in community banking and micro enterprise development. This really is micro enterprise. The example on the board behind him has a total enterprise capitalisation of $20. The material he is using has been[…]

“Before we moved here almost all our children died before they reached their fifth birthday,” he answered. Francois (pictured above) is the leader of a small Batwa community in Burundi. He is 7-years younger than me but looks like an old man. This is the impact of poverty. Four years ago own friends Claude and[…]

What an outpouring of joy I witnessed today – dancing and singing and drumming and laughing and talking – celebrating water. Donatilla (pictured) spoke so eloquently about the value of water to this community. How this well changes everything. How women would walk 10 miles a day to find water. How much time that took.[…]

We have been befriending and working with a community of war widows in Rwanda. Between us we have helped buy some initial sewing machines and provide some training. It was such a joy to hear that they have now been able to save enough money to buy their own specialist embroidery machine. It has been[…]

What a privilege to work with leaders from Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo to help them think through how they strengthen reconciliation and peacebuilding efforts in their communities. We spent a few days mapping the various conflicts and looking at how strategies could be shared across the region.

Was amazing to spend time with Lawrence (India) and Vardan (Armenia) in Yerevan recently. Sharing their experiences in serving people who live with disability. Incredible to see two leaders from such diverse backgrounds have so much in common. Learning from each other. This is a great example of crossing the ocean to think through how[…]

Spent a week with leaders from across the Middle East and Caucasus dreaming about the future. A big piece of that dreaming was helping them to construct a common narrative of the past. We spent a morning timelining the last 5000 years.

I just spent two wonderful days with 30 girls in Dar es Salam. They are the same ages as my own children and yet all 30 are survivors of the most horrific abuse. But i didn’t meet 30 hurt. broken and angry children – no I met 30 beautiful young women – 30 laughing, caring,[…]

We drove for hours – south east out of Nairobi. We left the tarmac far behind. The further we drove the dryer it got. Dust and dirt and women walking miles each day to carry water on their heads. And then this – a public toilet block on the side of the road – with[…]